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More Trouble In Apple's App Store
quickOnTheUptake writes in to update the story of foul play in Apple's App Store, which we talked over on Sunday. The Next Web, which broke the story, now provides evidence of rampant App Farms used for theft in the store. Here is a summary of the problems TNW has seen, which includes large-scale break-ins of the App Store accounts of users worldwide. Apple has responded to the initial reports, has disabled the account of the initially fingered rogue developer, and has called on those whose accounts were misused to change their password and credit card. Both TNW and Engadget, at least, believe the problems go far deeper than Apple is admitting.
Wow, what a mysterious cliffhanger at the end of the summary...just kidding, it's obvious. They never had to worry about security because nobody used their products! With a market share like that, why would any malware writer or hacker bother? But now that Apple somehow convinced so many people to buy their so-so phone, they should have known what comes with that; attempted security breaches!
Actually, it's not the least bit surprising for a company that doesn't know the first thing about security to put out an insecure product and whole related system. This is definitely not going to be the first story like this about Apple if they keep putting out products that get enough market share to get attention from bad people. As a company, they have no idea how to handle it. Think of it this way. Microsoft has had decades to stop all forms of security threats that are constantly targetted at them and still hasn't gotten it quite right. Apple is starting from nothing because they've never had to worry about security on any significant scale. So unless they suddenly pull about 15 years of developed security measures and then some out of their asses and put it into the next iPhone, they're going down in flames. This is sort of funny and entertaining really, and not just because it totally makes the outlook for Linux look better. Either Apple's products are a laughably small market share or it's a huge market share and because of that, turns into a disaster because they don't know what they're doing. So I'd like to see Mac computers get like a 30 or 40% market share so bad people start targetting them. Their OS would make XP look like Fort Knox by comparison.
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Is the story factually incorrect in any way, or otherwise misleading? No? Then stop whining about it and find a better company to support.
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.
WTF? Did you just suck Steve's dick or something?
That is my point: Stop whining and find better news for nerds.
Slashdot has turned into a bunch of sissy girls.
I don't mind the Apple stories.
I mind that Anti-Apple-baiting.
For people who don't buy their stuff but just want to complain.